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It’s clear as we head into the new millennium, and the third different decade ‘The Simpsons’ has been on air, that the show is no longer the fresh and groundbreaking thing it once was. However, that doesn’t stop it from being enjoyable. The episode where the children are trapped in the school with Skinner, and …
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The golden years are definitely over now and we are in a new era of ‘The Simpsons’ but that doesn’t necessarily mean the show has started a real down hill trajectory, it just means it no longer lives up to the ‘best ever on TV’ levels of some of the past seasons. The opening episode …
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After the first couple of seasons were spent finding its feet, ‘The Simpsons’ experienced a golden age unlike many shows have ever managed, and it was incredible. However, season 9 spells the end of that particular golden age for me, and even then, it is still an incredible season of TV that just struggles to …
Following on from another huge success in Season 7, and this time not having a huge cliffhanger to build off to start the season, there was pressure on this season of the show to continue the good work, and luckily for us it does. Kicking off the season with a compellingly Treehouse of Horror episode, …
Starting with the high profile conclusion to the epic “who shot Mr Burns” saga, there was a huge amount of pressure on the show to see if it could live up to the hype of the thing it was parodying: the “who shot JR” from ‘Dallas’, and the show managed to deliver. Moving on from …
Everyone has their own opinion on this (and I won’t make the statement that this is THE best of the show until I have finished the rewatch) but this season of ‘The Simpsons’ is one of the best seasons of TV you could possibly hope to find. The variety in genres and focus between the …
The Simpsons is an institution and it is a part of pop culture that nearly all of us have consumed in some way, at some point in our lives. However, beyond that, it is also simply a really great show, especially in the first decade or so that it has been showing. In this season, …
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